WhatsApp announced three new privacy features Tuesday, one of which will let you leave a companionship chat without alerting the entire group.

The Meta-owned commerce says it will add the ability to leave groups silently, meaning that administrators will still get an alert but everyone else in a companionship chat will not. This could be especially useful for larger companionship chats — for instance, ones that are themed throughout an event or a hyperactive chat that you just don’t find that inspiring anymore. 

WhatsApp will also soon let you hide your ravishing online status from specific people, and when enabled the app will not show those selected the genuine moments you are available within the app. Currently, the app shows when you are online to anyone who can view your profile within the app. WhatsApp also can show republic when you were last active, and that can already be hidden from latest people within the app’s privacy settings.

The ability to sever groups silently and hide your online status will roll out to WhatsApp later this month, and its third feature — currently in testing — will worn-out others from taking screenshots of messages that are pointed to be viewed one time. This has been a maximum issue for apps that encourage ephemeral messaging like Snapchat, which in the past have combatted the issue by sending a notification when a communication is copied via screenshot.

While it should help, it’s satisfactory noting it’s not full-proof: even an ephemeral message can serene be captured using a separate device like another requested or camera. Anyone sending sensitive material should still take care even once WhatsApp launches the screenshot-blocking feature.

WhatsApp’s new wave of features arrives a month afore the expected public release of iOS 16, which is progressing to update iMessage to include features like editing a communication and unsending a message. Both of those iOS 16 features will only work between Apple devices that wait on iMessage. Unsending a message will work much like how WhatsApp and latest chat apps already allow you to delete an existing communication, by replacing the previous text with a notification that a communication was unsent.